St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-22
The WHEAT SHORTAGE.
Col. Rogers Figuring Sustained by a
Recount.
100000 BUSHELS SHORT.
The Demand Increases and Supply De-
'NT9 creases--.Chance for Fore
sal sight.

7.Ihe facts and figures in the wheat
shortage, prepared by Col. G. ID. Rog-
ers and printed in yesterdays GLOBE,
attracted general attention and he has
supplemented them as follows:
The demand upon Minnesota and Da-
Kota for wheat from this crop, as stated
yesterday, is not less than $4,000, 600
DushelS. The supply is, according to
no more than SO,OOO,OOO bushels at the
outside. That is, the maximum esti-
mate of supply is 100000 below the
minimum estimate of demand. 1t is
evident that some one or more of the re-
qulrements will not be fully met. These
as stated yesterday are for bread and
seed 100000 bushels; Minneapolis
shipments, 1900, ,0G0 bushels; Minneap-
OILS milling consumption, sc, 600, 600; to
move through Duluth, 1000, 600; for the
use OF country merchant mills, 15,OO0,-
OO0 bushels; for southern shipments,
100000 bushels. The suggestive ques-
ton arises as to which of these de-
mands must yield to others, more ag-
greSslve. The amount allowed for
bread and seed is five bushels to the
lnhabltant and one and One-half bushels
to the acre. These requirements are
too well established to need further
proof. Then there is the item of
81, 100000 bushels for Minneapolis mills,
The last crop year, the amount used eX-
ceeded 2S,G00,000 bushels and to show
that more is being used now than then,
reference is made to shipments of -four.
that have this year exceeded shipments
Tor the same time a year ago by 500. l69
barrels, making the difference between
2S,0OO,000 bushels used last year and
3O,GO0,000 bushels required this year.
The mills are running to the utmost
stretch to meet the demand upon them.
AMI there is no prospect Of any curtail-
ment in the future. excepting such as
may be forced by low water; to provide
against which, steam is being more eX-
tensively added. The prospective de-
mand for flour is most excellent 1t is
not reasonable then to think this item of
wheat demand can be reduced.
Then what of the Minneapolis ship
ping movements. From the previous
crop 10, 7S3, 300 bushels went out, land the
demand on shipping account was never
SO heavy here before, by half, as now
and, being milling demand for the sup
ply OF interior miilS,i is one that always
increases toward the end of the crop
year. 1t originated in 1881 and has in
creased yearly until now, more than
half the states north of Tennessee and
the CarolinaS draw wheat for their
mills direct from this city, There is not
the shadow Of an excuse for suppOsing
that the 12,000.000 bushels will not have
to come here to supply that require
ment. Duluth will probably want the
,O00,G00 bushels assigned to it for its
Buffalo and other Eastern trade. There
is left the amount for country merchant
milling and Southern shipments. There
went out through the Southern routes.
from the old crop, one-half more than is
mentioned for this crop, with demand
not half SO acute, the crop being good
then, whereas it is poor now. Then
will the interior millers of Minnesota
and Dakota let go 13,0oJ,00O bushels of
their 15,000,GG0 requirements without
struggle? 4 year ago net less than
10,GiD,GG0 bushels of old wheat lay in
farmers granarieS and in country grain
houses against what are comparatively
empty bins this year. Last year we had
a 100,003.000 bushel demand with an
So,Wo,0o0 bushel supply, and the people
with great hind-slght are calculating
the outcome of this crop from their ur-
fortunate experience with the tail end
of the last one.